Here's to a HealthierU!
Upcoming Events
The Vagina Monologues
Thursday, February 15 @ 8:00pm; Friday, February 16 @ 8:00pm;
Saturday, February 17 @ 3:00pm
'92 Theater
Come see Wesleyan's annual performance of Eve Ensler's
award-winning show; a production that has become not only a
wide-reaching play, but which has also spawned a global movement
unto itself. Scream it. Sigh it. Sing it. SAY IT. It's The Vagina
Monologues. Admission is $5.00 (tickets available at the box office
in Davenport Campus Center), which will be donated to New Horizons,
a local emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence. For more
information, contact Emily House at edhouse@wes.
Sexual Health Expo
Friday, March 2, 2007 ~ 12:00 to 6:00pm ~ Lobby of the Exley Science
Center
Stop by WesWELL's annual Sexual Health Expo to learn all about
sexual and reproductive health issues....and get your picture taken
in the giant vulva! A complete list of workshops and tabling groups
will be available soon. Watch for current information at
Sexual Health Expo 2007. Want to help? Visit the
Sexpo website to submit a proposal for a workshop or table!!!!
Sponsored by WesWELL's Peer Health Advocates.
Tips for a HealthierU - A (Very Cold) Valentine's Day
edition!
How do you know if yours is a healthy or unhealthy
relationship?
Go Ask Alice!
offers some ways to help you figure it out
"Single" and "Valentine's Day" may not seem compatible to most
people..,.but it can be!
Get some ideas for treating yourself (and anyone you care about) to
a Happy Valentine's Day
Thinking a lot about chocolate today?
Get the nut
ritional scoop from the Yale-New Haven Hospital Nutrition Advisor
Baby, it's cold out there!
Use these cold weather safety tips from the Red Cross to protect
yourself!
Announcements
The Davison Health Center will be closing at 4:00pm on
Wednesday, February 14 due to inclement weather.
Quote of the Week
"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a
safer place." ~ Ice T, The Ice Opinion
Healthy Dose of Info on...Sexual Pheromones and Sexual
Desire
Imagine an invisible, undetectable force that's powerful
enough to override your sense of reason yet draws you to someone
with an almost animal passion. These aren't Cupid's mythological
arrows, but real shots of human pheromones. Scientists have been
researching for years whether or not humans, like other animals,
exude these secret scents, with attention focused on a small organ
composed of two small pits a few centimeters up the nose.
Biologists describe pheromones as "smellprints" supposedly as unique
to each of us as our fingerprints. Smell is the most primitive of
human senses and, unlike sight and touch, travels a direct route to
the brain's limbic lobe where it can provoke an emotional reaction
that can, quite literally, be a turn-on.
There's no doubt that pheromones underlie sexual and other types of
behavior in animals, but given the complex human psyche, can these
invisible lust signals be all you need for love? The scientific
verdict is pending, but an increasing body of evidence suggests that
the chemistry of sexual attraction and arousal is more nature than
nurture and quite beyond our control. Not so far-fetched a notion
considering how often we speak ? and sing ? of sexual chemistry.
Love or lust ? the question hasn't stopped the fragrance industry
from attempting to cash in on the accumulating knowledge about
pheromones by producing synthetic versions of these elusive
chemicals. True, the new fragrances aren't billed as aphrodisiacs.
Instead, they're advertised as mood-enhancers designed to help you
relax and shed your inhibitions.
While there's absolutely no proof that they can deliver on any kind
of erotic promise, the new pheromone perfumes are selling briskly,
even to repeat customers. Which may prove, yet again, that when it
comes to aphrodisiacs, nothing trumps the power of suggestion.
~ From
Discovery Health Channel
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Health Education
Health Services
Office of Behavioral Health
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